Essentially Ashland...The Missing Years - Softcover

Pugh, Lance K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425974929 ISBN 13: 9781425974923

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

I hope you?ll join me on this nostalgic, sometimes whimsical excursion into Ashland?s unique local history and culture. ?Essentially Ashland: The missing years? presents the stories of people and events that have helped make Ashland the attraction it is today. This book covers a period of time -- 1971 to the present -- that most accounts either ignore, or gloss over. It was during the early 70?s that a tidal wave of creativity and offbeat entrepreneurial spirit arrived with the counterculture, helping to breathe fresh hope and prosperity into a failing economy based on timber products. If you?re a resident of our town, you?ll probably encounter some old friends while reading this book. If you?re just visiting here, perhaps you?ll find people you?d like to meet in these pages. Either way, I promise that you?ll deepen your understanding of a place that?s like no other. Many of these stories were originally written for the venerable Ashland Daily Tidings. (I made my debut at the Tidings in 1977 with a piece on the death of Elvis, filing my copy from Belgium?but that?s another story.) Several dozen of my humor columns, which first appeared in the Tidings under the title ?Pugh?s Muse,? are also included in the second half of this book.

About this title

About the Author

LANCE PUGH AND HIS WIFE, ANNETTE, graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and went to work as buyers (men?s sportswear for him, lingerie for her) for a large department store chain, The May Company. Their lives were changed forever when they quit their jobs in 1972 to start Lithia Grocery, a health food restaurant in a historic building on Ashland?s then-decaying Plaza.Lance went on to become a historic building renovator, planning commissioner, network consultant, computer repairman, television documentary producer, travel writer, humor columnist, private investigator, boulevardier and raconteur. He was also the proprietor of the world?s smallest hot dog restaurant and Oregon?s first mobile hot tub. Annette became a real estate broker and kept Lance off the rocks as he sailed his many- masted ship of ideas through time and opportunities, some grasped and some missed.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425974929
• ISBN 13: 9781425974923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364